Ko no Moronao

Ko no Moronao (1315-) was Commissioner for Warfare of the Ashikaga Shogunate during the Nanboku-cho period.

Biography
Ko no Moronao was born in 1315, and he was accused of violence, greed, and lewdness while serving as Shogun's deputy to Ashikaga Takauji; his brother Ko no Moroyasu was also accused of being an avid villain. As a general of the Ashikaga Shogunate and its Commissioner for Warfare, Moronao killed Kitabatake Akiie in 1338 and other Southern Court generals during the Nanboku-cho period, although he was hostile towards Takauji's brother Ashikaga Tadayoshi. Moronao accompanied Takauji and his brother Moroyasu on their campaigns in the early 1350s in northern central Honshu against Tadayoshi and pro-Southern Court clans, proving themselves to be useful generals.